Chapter 15

Be Brave

Clove POV

Darkness surrounded me, my body felt numb and I wanted to open my eyes but I just couldn't; the last thing I remember was Brutus calling for help with a scared look on his face, and now I'm lying on a bed, I see shadows through my eyelids but my ears don't get what a voice is telling me.

"Clove, can you hear me? Try to open up your eyes please"- It's a voice that I don't know but then I hear Enobaria asking something to the other person.

"Are you sure she is going to be okay?"- She sounds concerned.

"Yes we just have to give her time to rest, she might experience post-trauma and the lost of blood might still make her feel weak"- I assumed that he was a doctor, now I remember that I tried to separate two students that were fighting, but I got in to quickly when I saw the knife that one of them was holding.

"Maybe she will wake up later, the twins are dying to see her"- she sighted- "I should go check on them"

I hear footsteps walking away and as much as I try to get up to talk to them and say that I'm okay I just can't, it's like my body won't respond me. I wanted to run and hug my babies, kiss them and tell them that everything would be okay but I couldn't and the darkness dragged me back again.

1 day later

I was dreaming, Claire and Cade were running in the grass of a meadow they were laughing happily and I was sitting under a tree watching them, suddenly I felt someone touching my hand; I looked up to see who it was and I saw Cato smiling lovingly at me. We and our children were happy, together as a family, then his mouth started moving and he said something that I couldn't understand because a voice from like, the real world brought me back.

"You are the strongest person I've ever known Clovely, you are going to get better soon"- And then he leaned at me and placed a kiss on my forehead.

2 days later

Suddenly I woke up, I was in a hospital room with peach colored walls, there was a nightstand beside my bed with a floral arrangement on top of it, lilacs, my favorite flowers, there was a couch in front of my bed and a bunch of "Get well soon" balloons and cars were placed at the side.

I pressed a button and a nurse immediately came into my room, she checked my blood pressure and temperature and said that the doctor would be here soon to talk to me.

He came in about 15 minutes later and was very happy to find me awaken, he said that I had lost a lot of blood during surgery because they had to take my appendix out, and that luckily almost miraculously the blade had not hurted a vital organ.

"Um, I'm kind of hungry"- I said woefully to the doctor- "Is that possible for me to eat something now?

"Of course you are, the nurse will bring you something in a minute"- he said while he laughed.

Then he said that I will probably stay in for another day or two and then I will be able to go home, he said goodbye and while he was going out of the room the nurse came in with a tray. I had jelly, apple juice and toast, not too bad, I tought, Caden would love to eat some of these. My babies, I want to see them so badly and as if I had wished it they walked inside my room and they almost jump on top of me, if it wasn't for Cato who stopped them to explain that mommy was sick so they had to be careful he placed them at my side and they hugged me and kissed me.

"Cato"- I said softly while I watched him play with Claire and Cade with some rubber gloves- "How long have you been here?"

"Since Friday, yesterday I went home to take care of this little monsters"- He answered without looking at me because he was inflating the gloves to use them as balloons.

He had been here all the time, even when he didn´t have to, he had taked care of my children and he was so caring and kind with them. I felt so guilty, I was supposed to tell him the truth on Friday but I haven´t been able to do it, I was keeping him apart from them, if they were not together it was only my fault because no matter what Cato had done in the past I had no right to keep him apart from his daughter and son. I was looking at them playing and the look on Cato's eyes caught my attention and just like that suddenly I knew that he already knows the truth, my eyes got watery and I felt a lump in the throat.

"You already know the truth don't you?"- I asked as he turned to see me.

His eyes looked sadly and confused at me, but to my surprise he didn't looked angry or so, he slowly got up and walked towards my bed.

"Yes, I found it out a couple of days ago"- I intended to interrupt him and try to explain-"Don't, I don't want to talk about this here, what I need is for you to recover and then we will talk".

I could not believe my ears, this Cato was a lot different that the one I used to know, he talked to me so calmly while the old him would had exploded in screams and complaints to me. He looked at his wristwatch and then at Claire and Cade.

"Guys, I have to go quickly to the training center but I will be back in an hour meanwhile you can stay here with mommy just be quiet okay? And when I come back we will go to eat diner"- he said at my, well our, babies; Claire blow him a kiss and he leaned to kiss my forehead.

"Have some rest Clove and you better eat all of your food, I'll be back soon"

"But, we have to talk, I... I have to explain…"- he stopped at the door and turned to look at me.

"All that you need to know is that I already love them with all my heart, they just have me wrapped around their little fingers, and I think they deserve a family"- and he just closed the door.

Silent tears started running down my cheeks as I understood what had just happened, but those were happy tears because Cato loved Claire and Cade and they will finally have a daddy.